BUFFON Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de, Histoire Naturelle, - Lot 181

BUFFON Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de, Histoire Naturelle, Générale & Particulière par M. de Buffon, Intendant du Jardin du Roi, de l'Académie française, de celle des sciences, &c: - Histoire Générale, Paris à l'Imprimerie royale, 5 tomes: Tome I: 1774, with a portrait of the author engraved by Chevillet in 1773, after Drouais le fils in 1761 and two plates: "Le genre de la nature dans la contemplation de l'univers" engraved by Prévost after Bouchardon and "Théorie de la Terre" engraved by Prévost after Blakey - Tome II: 1774, sixteen plates including the sixteenth folding - Tome III: 1775 - Tome IV: 1776, eight plates - Tome V: 1778, six plates. - Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, Paris à l'Imprimerie royale, 9 volumes: Volume I: 1770, twenty-nine plates - Volume II: 1771, twenty-seven plates (plate XXIV missing) - Volume III: 1775, thirty-one plates (plate XXVII missing) - Volume IV : 1778, twenty-seven plates (plate IX missing) - Vol. V: 1778, nineteen plates (plate XVIII missing) - Vol. VI: 1779, twenty-five plates (plate XXI missing) - Vol. VII: 1780, thirty-one plates (peculiarities: plate XVI incorrectly positioned on p. 316 - missing plate XV) - Vol. VIII: 1781, thirty-nine plates - Vol. IX: 1783, thirty-one plates (missing plates XXIV & XXIX) - Histoire naturelle, générale & particulière des quadrupèdes, Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 7 volumes: Volume I: 1777, thirteen plates - Volume II: 1781, with a table of the order of dogs and fifty-seven plates (missing plates XXVII & XXVIII) - Volume III: 1784, sixty-one plates (peculiarity: duplicate plate XXXIV with two different figures and absence of plate XXXV; plate XXVI missing) - Vol. IV: 1785, sixty-two plates - Vol. V: 1786, seventy-five plates - Vol. VI: 1787 comprising fifty-one plates including fold-out plates XLIV & XLV) - Vol. VII: 1788, thirty-eight plates (peculiarity: plate XXIII to be placed on p. 136 is positioned on p. 132 after plate XXI) - Histoire naturelle des minéraux, Paris à l'Imprimerie Royale, 5 volumes: Volume I & Volume II: 1783 - Volume III: 1785 - Volume IV: 1786 - Volume V: Traité de l'aimant & de ses usages, A Paris, Imprimerie des Bâtiments du Roi, 1788. - Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et serpens par le Comte de la Cepede, Paris, Hôtel de Thou, rue des Poitevins, sous le privilège de l'Académie royale des sciences, two volumes: Volume I: 1788: comprising a methodical table of oviparous quadrupeds (fold-out plate), a Synopsis methodica quadrupedum oviparorum (fold-out plate) and forty-one plates (peculiarities: Plate XI [actually pl. XIV: correct pagination but numbering error] - Plate XXXI [actually pl. XXXV: correct pagination but numbering error] - Plate XV [actually pl. XL: correct pagination but numbering error]) - Volume II: 1789, twenty-two plates Set of twenty-eight in-4 volumes, bound in blond calf, boards gilded in triple fillet, spines ribbed with gilded foliage titled on red morocco. (Worn binding, missing plates cut cleanly, some scattered foxing).